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Ed Johnson to the Atlanta School Board: “America United” and “A Union with Purpose”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 22, 2021January 23, 2021

January 22, 2021January 23, 2021073

Ed Johnson is a persistent, tireless advocate for systemic improvement of the Atlanta Public Schools. As a systems analyst, he opposes school choice, which helps...

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Atlanta: Charter Schools Rake in Millions in PPP Funds for “Not-Public Schools”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 12, 2021January 13, 2021

January 12, 2021January 13, 2021051

Ed Johnson, fearless advocate for public schools in Atlanta, obtained a list of the charter schools in that city that received Paycheck Protection Program funding...

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Ed Johnson: Will the Citizens of Atlanta Allow Their Public Schools to be Transformed into a Business?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 18, 2019November 26, 2020

December 18, 2019November 26, 2020049

December 2019 Journey of Transformation: Atlanta schools to “buy” teachers by “price tag” “Thinking about human beings as interchangeable commodities for sale, or abstract units...

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Jeff Bryant: How Billionaires Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 19, 2019November 26, 2020

October 19, 2019November 26, 2020056

Jeff Bryant writes here about the billionaires who corrupted the school leadership pipeline. Chief among them, of course, is billionaire Eli Broad, who created an...

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Ed Johnson on the Non-Renewal of the Atlanta Superintendent’s Contract

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 10, 2019November 26, 2020

September 10, 2019November 26, 2020046

The Atlanta Board of Education announced earlier today that it was not extending the contract of its superintendent. Ed Johnson has been an outspoken critic...

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Breaking News! Atlanta Will Not Renew Superintendent’s Contract

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 9, 2019November 26, 2020

September 9, 2019November 26, 2020045

In a surprise announcement, the Atlanta School Board decided not to renew the contract of it controversial Superintendent Méria Carstarphen. https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/divided-atlanta-school-board-meets-today-discuss-superintendent-future/udqiT86GLYtGnEpXUCQPJL/ She supports the transformation...

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